River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-18

engaged in a hsticua over personal
quarrel, when horne and several other
gentlemen tried to separate them. Veale
fell % the fiOor with Nenable on top, but
managed To get out his revolver and fired
upwards twice Horne was shot through
the brain. The affair causes intense eX-
cItement on account of the prominence Of
all parties connected with it.
\ wild man has been captured at
Sargent, Ills. He had hair that measured
over five feet in length and from appear
ances II had not been cOmbed for years
Ills beard was fully two feet long and COW
cred all his face. His language his unin-
telllgIble, and no trace Of where he came
from can be discovered. II took the com
blned strength of a q oxen men TO hold him
IN order 70 bind his hands ana feet. The
citizens are IN a Iuandary what TO do with
their catch.
At Ishpemir z. Mich, eight miners
attempted To ride down the shaft in the
Cleveland Iron mine against orders on the
/ 18th. When = feet from the bottom the
skip was suddenly overturned, and Ed
ward Cox, IOpes Nominee and Herman
BERTHA were thrown to the bottom of the
shaft and instantly killed. Robert Trudgen
ald " Hham Chapman escaped death.
Herman Anderson, Alex Anderson and
Andrew Dleberg We're seriously injured and
are now in the hospital.
At Louisville. Ky. on Monday the
tobacco trade Of the city held a meeting
and sent out circulars TO the tobacco men in
all tue other markets Of the state, request
ing them TO cooperate with them in sign
lng petition to President Cleveland asking
I in view If Statisticap Dodge's recent to-
Z bacco report. that he De removed from his
position IN the depar, ment q agriculture.
Aaron 4. Sargent, ex-United States
Senator for California, died at San fran
cisco, California, on the 18th. He had been
aIllng Tor some time. but confined to his
house only for the last two weeks The
disease was enlargement Of the spleen re-
sultlng IN blood poisoning. After his last
return he engaged in law practice, establish
ing the firm OF Sargent q Stone.
Stephen W. Dorsey. Jesse r. Grant.
F. A Ba Is, Samuel r. Scharf, and some
other T stern capitalists, have Just re-
turned 10 New York from the Gogebic
where they have been consolidating the
iron mines there in two trust schemes TO
control the output and the price. and have
invested several million dollars in the pur-
chase of property there.
Hiram Schoonover, shot and killed
his mother in-law. aged 20, at Brownsville.
Neb., on the 9Th. tie pretends that he
took his m0ther-in-law for IA skunk as
he vas watching for supposed boy he sus-
pectet Of stealing from his corn-crib. The
murdered woman had been heard to express
fear that her sOn-in-law would kill her
At Tuscan. Arizona. the anniversary
of aronimo's surrender to Gen. Miles has
been set apart as day for the presenta-
rlum of a sword 70 Gen. Miles. The sword
viii be made bv Tiffany a Co. of New
rHHE- of - IN tnt.t
people contributed, from all parts Of
Arizona
At Woodstock. Va, Judge Newman
sent Senator RiddIeberger to jail for CON
tempt of court on Friday. The men are
enemies and the Senator resented the adj
verse decision Of the Judge in a lawsuit,
and the latter retaliated with contempt
proceedings.
Reports from every county in South
Carolina, August I, indicate the largest
crop ever produced in the state; the corn is
the best ever grown; other crops stand as
follows: Sorghum, - per cent. Sugar cane,
-, Irish potatoes, - and acreage increased
, per cent.
On Friday a railroad train went
through a culvert near Sabine City, Ind,
and six passengers were injured, one of
whom may die, a passenger train on the
Georgia r. R, ran off a similar bridge near
Albany, Ga, and Is passengers We're hurt.
4 party of 100 of Senator Riddle
burgers friends, defying Judge Newman's
contempt commitment appeared at the
Winchester, Va, Jail at O'Clock in the
morning. scaled the walls Of the jail yard
and took the Senator out on ladders.
A prairie fire which crept up to the
city limits of Chicago Wednesday after
noon resulted in the destruction of the
Weber wagon works, the Auburn school
house, a two story fiat and four cottages.
Loss S300,OO0, partial insurance.
At Watersmeet. Mich, Friday, u
men had been engaged in filling a new
water tank on the Northwestern r. r., and
had sat down near II to rest, when the tank
burst. killing six Of them and injuring each
of the other six
Sandusky. the county seat of
Sanilac County, Mich, was nearly des-
troyed by fire ON the 9th, which originated
in the adjacent swamps. The principal
business places were all destroyed.
Eight incendiary fires occurred at
Muskegon. Mich, on the 9th, 100000 feet
of lumber being burned on the docks, and
other fires making an aggregate loss of
S3OO,CUO.
BY the burning of a peanut ware
house at st Louis, Mo, on the 10th, three
tiremen were killed and two MORALLY
injured by falling walls. The fire loss was
5000.
AT Dyersburg, Ky, on the 18th,
eleven buildings burned, occupied by vari
ous stores; Loss about $4,000, trifiing in
surance.
4 uniform rate Of one cent "A mile
has been made 10y the railroads throughout
the country for the National G. A. R., en-
campment at 81 Louis, in September.
During the burning of a box factory
at Kansas City. Mo. on the 10th, the
Waterman persisted IN the flames.
The ". O. Tyler Paper company of
Chicago suspended on the >th, liabilities
S.EO.uUO, assets the same
An So, GOO fire occurred al salt
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